The Time Is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of HistoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 23.07.2002 - 384 Seiten The Time Is Out of Joint handles the Shakespearean oeuvre from a philosophical perspective, finding that Shakespeare's historical dramas reflect on issues and reveal puzzles which were taken up by philosophy proper only in the centuries following them. Shakespeare's extraordinary handling of time and temporality, the difference between truth and fact, that of theory, and that of interpretation and revelatory truth are evaluated in terms of Shakespeare's own conjectural endeavors, and are compared with early modern, modern, and postmodern thought. Heller shows that modernity, which recognized itself in Shakespeare only from the time of Romanticism, found in Shakespeare's work a revelatory character which marked the end of both metaphysical system-building and a tragic reckoning with the inaccessibility of an absolute, timeless truth. Heller distinguishes the four stages found in constantly unique relation in Shakespeare's work (historical, personal, political, and existential) and probes their significance as time comes to fall 'out of joint' and may be again set aright. Rather than initially bestowing upon Shakespeare the dubious honorary title of philosopher, Heller probes the concretely situated reflections of characters who must face a blind and irrational fate either without taking responsibility for the discordance of time, or with a responsibility which may both transform history into politics, and set right the time which is out of joint. In the ruminations and undertakings of these characters, Shakespeare's dramas present a philosophy of history, a political philosophy, and a philosophy of (im)moral personality. Heller weighs each as distinctly modern confrontations with the possibility of truth and virtue within a human historical condition no less multifarious for its momentariness. |
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... father of Machiavellianism. Shakespeare's political dramas are Machiavellian in another, deeper sense.They are far closer to our mod- ern reading of Machiavelli's works than to their reading in his own time. As is well known ...
... father of Machiavellianism. Shakespeare's political dramas are Machiavellian in another, deeper sense.They are far closer to our mod- ern reading of Machiavelli's works than to their reading in his own time. As is well known ...
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... father and the father ofhis father.The usurpers raise a claim to the throne by the right of nature, the law of nature, because the best (the fittest) has the right to rule. Still, the claim of tradition is power- ful, so the self-made ...
... father and the father ofhis father.The usurpers raise a claim to the throne by the right of nature, the law of nature, because the best (the fittest) has the right to rule. Still, the claim of tradition is power- ful, so the self-made ...
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... father and betrays her lover? Ham- let accuses his mother—among others—of being unnatural for preferring an ugly, undignified swine to a chivalrous and beautiful man (her husband). Laertes does not suffer under the double bind, but ...
... father and betrays her lover? Ham- let accuses his mother—among others—of being unnatural for preferring an ugly, undignified swine to a chivalrous and beautiful man (her husband). Laertes does not suffer under the double bind, but ...
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... fathers (thus Ophelia and Miranda behave “naturally,” whereas Desdemona, Juliet, and Cordelia do not). It is natural that wives subordinate their wish- es to their husbands' (thus Titania offends tradition in refusing to grant Oberon's ...
... fathers (thus Ophelia and Miranda behave “naturally,” whereas Desdemona, Juliet, and Cordelia do not). It is natural that wives subordinate their wish- es to their husbands' (thus Titania offends tradition in refusing to grant Oberon's ...
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... father's love into his basket of self-justification. All three passages are arguments that justify an action.Yet they justify not merely an action but also a general attitude to life, a way of life that defies tradition.The arguments ...
... father's love into his basket of self-justification. All three passages are arguments that justify an action.Yet they justify not merely an action but also a general attitude to life, a way of life that defies tradition.The arguments ...
Inhalt
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Part II The History Plays
| 161 |
Part III Three Roman Plays
| 279 |
Postscript Historical Truth and Poetic Truth
| 367 |
About the Author
| 375 |
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